שָׁרַץ sharats
Hebrew word for “to swarm” · Strong’s H8317 · used 14 times in 14 verses
Meaning
1) (Qal) to teem, swarm, multiply; 1a) to swarm, teem; 1b2) to swarm
How it is translated
Glosses given for sharats in context, with how often each is used:
- which swarms 6
- swarmed 3
- will swarm 2
- them swarm 1
- swarm 1
- swarms 1
Where it is used
Chapters where it is used most
Leviticus 11 (5), Genesis 1 (2), Genesis 7 (1), Genesis 8 (1), Genesis 9 (1), Exodus 1 (1), Exodus 8 (1), Psalms 105 (1), Ezekiel 47 (1)
Forms
- השׁרץ 5
- שׁרצו 2
- ישׁרצו 1
- ושׁרצו 1
- וישׁרצו 1
- ושׁרץ 1
- השׁרצת 1
- שׁרץ 1
- ישׁרץ 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with sharats more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- שֶׁרֶץ sherets “swarm” 6
- עוֹף oph “bird” 5
- רָמַשׂ ramas “to creep” 4
- חַי chay “alive” 6
- פָּרָה parah “be fruitful” 3
- רָבָה ravah “to multiply” 4
- נֶפֶשׁ nephesh “soul” 5
- שֶׁקֶץ sheqets “detestation” 2
- מַי mayim “water” 4
- צְפַרְדֵּעַ tsephardea “frog” 2
- בְּהֵמָה behemah “animal” 3
- מִין min “kind” 2
Key verses
The verses using sharats that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Genesis 1:20 — And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
- Genesis 1:21 — And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after…
- Genesis 7:21 — And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every…
- Genesis 8:17 — Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the…
- Genesis 9:7 — And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
- Exodus 1:7 — And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.
- Exodus 8:3 — And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of…
- Leviticus 11:29 — These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind,
- Leviticus 11:42 — Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever goeth upon all four, or whatsoever hath more feet among all creeping things that creep upon the earth, them ye…
- Leviticus 11:46 — This is the law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every creature that creepeth upon the earth:
- Psalms 105:30 — Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, in the chambers of their kings.
- Ezekiel 47:9 — And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great…
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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.